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... face . Laura Seckerton has a clever sketch in her port- folio of the wild , desolate , elevated swamp as it appeared on one of these occasions ; a sweep of yellow grass , interspersed with ling , and black bog pits ; in the centre , far ...
... face . Laura Seckerton has a clever sketch in her port- folio of the wild , desolate , elevated swamp as it appeared on one of these occasions ; a sweep of yellow grass , interspersed with ling , and black bog pits ; in the centre , far ...
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... face , though like her mother's , was more refined with the refinement of youth ; her face might get a trifle coarser by age , ( who knows ? ) or might be swept by storms of passion ; but at present she was as placid , as delicately ...
... face , though like her mother's , was more refined with the refinement of youth ; her face might get a trifle coarser by age , ( who knows ? ) or might be swept by storms of passion ; but at present she was as placid , as delicately ...
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... face , bearing not much color , and an imperial diadem of dark black hair , dark as the moor after a thunder - storm ; was there a fault in her face ? Only one ; the mouth was rather large . CHAPTER IV . THESE two figures were so very ...
... face , bearing not much color , and an imperial diadem of dark black hair , dark as the moor after a thunder - storm ; was there a fault in her face ? Only one ; the mouth was rather large . CHAPTER IV . THESE two figures were so very ...
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... face , that as soon as the present rector dropped , Lord Hatterleigh would give him the living of Hatterleigh to keep him near him . Sam Bolton got engaged on the strength of it . The rector himself , a lean old gentleman , a bishop's ...
... face , that as soon as the present rector dropped , Lord Hatterleigh would give him the living of Hatterleigh to keep him near him . Sam Bolton got engaged on the strength of it . The rector himself , a lean old gentleman , a bishop's ...
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... face a scene , and go through with it to the end if one of his principles was at stake , and win . Temper ! his temper was angelic , so long as he had not lost his umbrella , mislaid his goloshes , or forgot his dinner pills ; and then ...
... face a scene , and go through with it to the end if one of his principles was at stake , and win . Temper ! his temper was angelic , so long as he had not lost his umbrella , mislaid his goloshes , or forgot his dinner pills ; and then ...
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